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Author Archives: Leon Hament

I’ve been using a beautiful Dell XPS 13 (9343) for the last 3 months as my primary machine. Not only has it a decent processor (i7), it also has a beautiful high resolution screen. The brightness and contrast is much better than on the Lenovo X1 Carbon that I’ve been using previously. But the […]

In a VMware vSphere 5.5 environment we discovered a strange issue with most VM’s. After a reboot they would lose their network connectivity. It doen’t matter if they run 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2, they all show the same behavior. They are unreachable over the network In vSphere they show the correct IP address […]

Imagine you have a bunch of pictures of your users… and imagine that they are 648×648 pixels and are named %username%.jpg. Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could upload those in Office 365 without bothering your users with an instruction?

I decided my life was too easy. I’ve replaced Windows 8.1 update with Windows 10 Technical Preview on my primary machine. Overall this works pretty well, but I did run into a performance problem with client Hyper-V. When setting up a demo virtual machine with Windows 8.1 I noticed it was very slow. I use […]

One of the strenghts of Sharepoint is imo the user subscribed email alerts. Our SharePoint admin created a workflow that produces an email. This email contains some HTML to make it pretty. Outlook however, by default, blocks the HTML and the receivers end up with an email that’s well… ‘not’ so pretty.

Just a quick one. One of our few 2012 non R2 servers gave an error when trying to create a recovery point: The following alert occurred at 10/7/2014 10:24:03 AM. The replica of Non VSS Datasource Writer on server.domain.local is inconsistent with the protected data source. All protection activities for this data source will fail […]

To enable a user for Lync, some admin interaction is normally necessary. To make life a bit easier, but to stay in-control at the same time, I wrote a PowerShell script. The key features are; Checks for usersobjects in multiple user defined OUs Checks if the userobjects are enabled Checks if the userobject has an […]

Recently I have been doing a lot with Powershell. There is just one issue… a blue window with white text on it, it’s not really cool is it? Especially when you are running lenghty scripts, it just looks cool for geeks like myself. How cool would it be if the PowerShell window could be transparant? […]

Recently a customer contacted me with an Exchange 2013 issue. Their Exchange certificate was about to expire and they had some trouble renewing the certificate on one of their Client Access servers. The 3rd party certificate was successfully imported and activated on the 1st CAS server, but it failed to import on the 2nd CAS server. […]